Chlorprozamine, a drug used to control psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, was found to work.
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Fortunately medicines that work on psychotic symptoms from an illness such as schizophrenia also work for psychotic symptoms arising from brain trauma.
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It is also very unusual for children to develop clear-cut psychotic symptoms.
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Of the problem you list, the two I worry about most as a psychiatrist are the suicidal thoughts and the psychotic symptoms (i.e. hearing voices).
But schizophrenics also suffer from depression and an inability to feel emotion--symptoms that existing anti-psychotic drugs don't treat.
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There is evidence that anti-psychotic drugs have some modest benefits for some specific behavioural symptoms over short periods (6-12 weeks), particularly aggression and to a lesser extent psychosis.
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